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Gist f72a3553521c158f0eb0dccbe774455e

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Created on Jan 29, 2020

This example demonstrates a web scraper that extracts detailed trail information from a hiking website. It shows how structured data can be programmatically retrieved from HTML pages, specifically pulling out features, overview, and description sections. The code uses the Nokogiri library to parse the document and XPath queries to locate the relevant heading elements. After extracting each section, it cleans the text by removing newlines and excess whitespace. The scraper returns a hash containing the three descriptive fields, making the data readily accessible for further processing or visualization.

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